insurance policy on every rental and collect a deposit up to one thousand dollars for deposit and airbnbakes care of that and puts a hold on their card and returns it if i don't mention anything after they stay i'm a host and the 90 day limit should be looked at devil between host and no host it's unfair to make a one-size-fits-all considering all the arrangements and allowing different legislation for each and have the great opportunity we had a guest at home when we had a pipe burst and at the turned the water off it saved our home and the downstairs neighbor - >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi supervisors and thank you planning department i appreciate the opportunity i'm michael a resident of the mission district i honing own my home there i've been fortunate i have a multiple bedroom home and didn't intend to when i bought the home participate in even the home sharing concept or renting my home but over the last 4 years i've done hosted family members one particular family members at ucsf medical school and hosted friends through divorces and most recently 0 people that were in trans

. >> hi my name is kathy incurring i'm in the castro district i'm a hosted airbnb host and i own my own tic and support home sharing i want to thank you all so much for on the work you're putting into this it must be a difficult task and an important issue thank you, very much several years i was one of the tenants that was looking for a place n to live in san francisco and having a hard time because of airbnb i was able to buy a 3 bedroom tic and have one room for me and one for a full-time tenant and one for a airbnb there are two few people looking for a place to stay now and i couldn't have done it without the airbnb and as a hosted airbnb i would find it difficult if i had a 90 day restrictions i wounded be able to keep my home with respect to the business use of the property audio haven't seen this but how about the opposition given to the massage therapy and all kinds of things and i wonder in you know there are so many owner restrictions like the registry and the reporting finally, i think it would be truly be a shame if the hundreds of thousands of visitors couldn't stay in an

10 thousand rooms that could become bedrooms in san francisco you have someone allowed to do the airbnb thing now all of a sudden that person can make $3,000 a month rather than $3,000 at this point it becomes let's say 7 thousand rooms 10 thousand rooms fighting not 10 thousand but 7 thousand it's basic economics prices are going to increase in the meantime, people come up and give their story i'm sympathetic i'm in the exact same boat but while you help those folks that have a place to make that infrastructure little money while the prices increase the person that doesn't have a place are going to be the ones hurt the second point importing ability if you live in a place and you move out your lease ends clear law right now landlords and owners cannot enforcing enforce that i love minimizing and i love getting rid of - >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm sherry iron i'd like to give you a little bit of a different take i'm a small business owner we are locked in north beach our business my business is a community and a education center for enough parents we provide prenata

and against my he private information on the registry for everyone to see i have been a host for airbnb this past year and a half e and a half an enjoy experience i live in district 11 and host one private bedroom and this past year has been an enjoyable experience and posting on airbnb has lifted me up financially and criteria wise and education wise i've be it further resolved become involved in the community like everyone and i learn something new everyday and become activity in this issue as far as safety i've lived in my hosted residence and work hard everyday to live in san francisco i would never invite anyone into my home to threaten it i've not felt the safety or the roommates safety or the neighborhood safety was in question the 90 day cap will destroy me my private room is inquired about every single day of the year the days it's not because i booked them off for any family it keeps the roof over my head and keeping my afloat and here as a host i can register but to put my private information where my business and home that makes me feel unsafe the 90 day cap that will destro

city where people come into san francisco and not know about the students i'll guide them so i'm for airbnb home sharing. >> thank you. next speaker. and hi, i'm lirnd i live on upper market and serial we've got to stop meeting like this i have 4 hundred petitions plus i'll leave those with you supervisor wiener i thank you especially supervisor chiu who led at some personal and political expense the charge for us as a san franciscan i've lived here 23 years and seen the housing market go up-and-up and up and this is the first time us tenant what reduce our costs wouft losing our rent control apartment i building in an expense rent control market it's hard to make ends meet we started to do this so i can take time off with an unpaid is a basic but here's the thing a hosted stay is not a rent control unit my spare bedroom is not a rent control unit we have lots of family and friends that come in and out of san francisco we need that space and ought to wish or be able to live with whom we want so i really hope you'll pass home sharing without the 90 day cap supervisor kim means you've killed

that particularly now, when i'm unemployed for the first time in 20 years we can do so i love what airbnb and similar rivers like home exchange do in our our community they certainly help our family and the guests are wonderful i've gotten to screen them and talk to them and it's mostly families that are staying in our neighbors we've been able to welcome lots of families to san francisco and the excelsior. >> thank you very much, sir. >> thank you, supervisors dennis i'd like to raise an issue that's received no attention in all those many ours of hearings although it was raised by director ram at the first hearing the fact is the most affordable housing in san francisco are single rooms shared apartments the true sharing economy when people get together and share an agreement because they can't afford one this has visually nothing in it to protect those units and rooms it basically encourages people to take those away to away from people and rent them out on a short-term basis and the 90 days to rent out a room is greater than than you would get in 12 months from another tenant so i thi

we're accountable to our neighborhood for it is best to be accountable so we trust the platforms for airbnb a resolving those issues i remind people fade of strarpgz but even my wife was a stranger please allow us to have home sharing for the global community to velocity our wonderful city and share some of the guests wealth with us thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello, i he was called earlier but i stepped outs before that. >> what's our name. >> ray. >> go ahead. >> i first represented in san francisco 27 years ago 8 years ago i purchased any first condo in san francisco and now a proud taxpayer and voting member have been district 22 1/2 coagulating ago the hoisted i was fooling economic difficulties helpings helped cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. me through the time i rented out one room on a hosted basis and recently i'm experiencing with renting out even though desires place on an unhosted basis i've now decided to listed any property for a long term rental but the process of renting my place out long term i never came to it conclusion ha

i'm going to give my two amendments the first involves city subsidized housing i know exclude from airbnb and b o sharing and f o and the low market rate units i'd like to propose that and is that the legislation as currently written despite the proposed amendments i've benedictions or mentioned it allows san franciscans receiving the benefits for permanent affordable housing or subsidized first time homeowners to cash northbound on those benefits by using them as short-term rentals for their profit it leafs the on news for protecting those units to the landlord or the agency providing the funding i'm proposing a clear prohibition to chewed unit from continuallying of those subsidies with like projectss are the city fund like 1950 the project by the city the affordable housing or the short-term erect units like the small sized acquisition unit i'm proposing to excused the down payment loan program it is equitable to allow this group of homeowners to participate in home sharing, however, if there's not a 90 day limit open the home sharing the city will face a crisis they will be used year-

i'm proud that airbnb started here in san francisco you seeing air mattresses on living rooms floors and now a company that evaluated at $10 billion according cots new york times that evaluation makes airbnb worth more than hotel changes and the hyatt they pay their taxes and it is not able that airbnb has recently started to pay their hotel taxes it start as of last week, we thank them for that this payment is long overdue after all this is not a company that is sleeping on air mattresses anywhere this is a company that is worth $10 billion how long overdue is this well on april 3rd, 2012, the cities tax clerk issued a memo that a website company that receives rent that the occupancy of a transaction is an operator responsible for collecting the transit occupancy tax associated with that rental and remitting it to the city it's good that airbnb has started to pay their takes as required by the tax clerk their approximately two and a half years overdue in paying the tax that are owed to the city airbnb stated at the lack of foundation that the trinity occupancy tax they've begun to p

why are you so against airbnb?ve had constituents, whole sections of communities in my district, coming to me with more and more complaints that residential buildings where they live, where the grandparents and children live, are being overrun by strangers with luggage who have keys to the building, who have no respect for the private rights of the neighbors. everyone says airbnb can be great for the hosts and guests, but in new york city people live in big apartment complexes. it is never your home alone. it is everybody around you. so my actions have been consistently driven by protecting the residents of the city of new york and protecting our desperate shortage of affordable housing units from being taken off the market for residents of the city of new york and turned into a legal hotel rooms. -- illegal hotel rooms. >> i wonder what the effect is of changing a residential housing unit into a hotel unit on the city? not wanting someone in your hallway you don't know is one thing, but i wonder if the character o

we need you, you to not partnered to a bunch of lawbreakers 5 thousand of the homeowners and the airbnb owners this can go away with enforcement you passed a new law you want to enforce i know there's a huge amount of pressure from airbnb they want to make san francisco as a flagship it is a huge sell out that will change the character of san francisco. >> thank you, sir. >> okay. i'm emily h i want to thank you for your work i'm pro home shairgz i've been subletting part of my home there airbnb i fall into the camp of single room occupancy owners to raise my children i rent between 5 and 6 months of this year i'm not taking properties off the market because two or three months i have family out of town investing i'm in favor of what is being proposed of packing taxing and being insured for the safety recommendations you're putting forgot and i want to work in a legal regulated way and have concerns about the 90 day cap on the single-family homes i am requesting you're not having the cap of the 90 days and it would make it harder for me to stay in san francisco or pursue the bed-and-bre

with the transportation network like uber and lift and experiencing with short-term rentals like airbnb companies and individuals who use and enjoy their products have created a new market we have a rocketed to insure that market like p.i. any other are not community needs i don't want a free-for-all that turns houses in san francisco into hotels and leaves the permanent resident out in the co-sponsored cold nor earning extra money we're sailing into unchartered waters we need a balance to provide housing for permanent residents all in all this legislation strikes a balance that is a good balance i have to emphasize this is very easily in the game honestly we don't know how this industry or legislation will play out in every circumstances in every neighborhood we don't know if the city needs to put a cap on the short-term rentals in the future or if 90 or nine hundred and 65 or one hundred and 20 days is navigate the right limit for rental per night as we grapple with the affordable housing like few cities have seen not many issues as desire as the protection and supply of our housing f

or not airbnb i kind of look at this through an economic lens we're saying people that can afford to own property in san francisco yes that's okay for you to b and b airbnb a new phrase by the way, okay for you to do it but if you're a renter in a legalized in-law unit it's not okay for them? i don't know if you're a property owner you have no more flexibility those are the 3 points i'm comfortable with not being behogan if the host is on site then they should have no more flexibility and not a 90 day cap and when it comes to the point of insurance company i'm not clear in 5 how does is the minimum or maximum we're not requesting them to stay in san francisco that are going through the motions just to be able to live here those are my comments thank you very much and supervisor chiu for bringing this wonderful legislation and dedicated people that have stayed here all day. >> supervisor kim and i want to respond yes, i'm offering the suggestion your different if you're a homeowner so if you're a condo owner you would get a number of nights hosted and not hosted but if you're a renter

. >> i was called earlier i'm bryan hill i support home sharing one summer i hosted a bunch of airbnb guests i choose not to do it because it's a coordination hassle i want to address one thing the distinction between the old and new residents the existing laws impact similarities ability to come in where it would this legislation if it were passed would impasse the folks ability to have quasi hotel businesses so the extent that the hotel limits one to a home sharing opportunity did that result in a eviction and it doesn't then you're not talking about displaying residents that's not an issue 0 now what upstairs it's a question of are the perspectives for new tenants limited because they want to do home sharing and not renting the person is is the - the second thing is i'm concerned that if this legislation didn't pass with - if it passes with challenges and hoops the businesses go back underground to craig's list thank you. >> thank you i'm going to reread the names of the people that evaporate testified yet in case you walked into the room (calling names) okay looks like none of the

the ideas of requiring a proportion of the conditional use to go through the process to become a airbnb whatever the person's view it's important to understand the reality it means a probability lengthy conditional use process and means a significant number of cruz added to the planning department's workload so i want to stress that realty i don't know that a cu is a simple permit to get a cumbersome process. >> okay supervisor chiu. >> thank you. i want to comment on some of the comments that colleagues have made you first of all, thank the members of the committee for wrestling with the policy i know there is not an easy issue to table i want to appreciate all the comments and at the outset the contemplates by supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen i'm happy to support and supervisor kim mentioned addressing the safety concerns of the potential emergencies and supervisor cohen mentioned that that what supervisor cohen mentioned a host to post an evasion notice specific to that unit it's appropriate and every unit has a different set of situations for the fire extinguisher and the elec

february 6th months so far we've had zero complaints from our neighbors they like having us having our airbnb room open so some of the new family members can come and invest and stay with us locally we're in a neighborhood that has no hotels or by the evidenoard of directo one is kate she came from erlgd they stayed with us for a bus that's nearby you'll see the common theme in my presentation jennifer came to stay and her friend was getting married so she stayed with us next one brad he lived on the one side of monterey boulevard and it was close for his family so come and visit i carry an umbrella insurance company through state farm as the second personality talked about i'm not in favor of the cap as well as the home registry one-on-one that pits one neighbor against another neighbor it is not good for the neighbors to know what's going on i should be able to operate a - >> thank you, thank you bruce. >> hi supervisors a president of order i noticed that the transcriptions are inadequate because we rely on actual transcriptions a lot of the phrasing was inaccurate that this is an importan

taken off the market i've lived with housemates since 1990 i could and have render out my room on airbnb and have a house mat again, i'm doing my part to solve the housing countries thank you supervisor chiu for putting this dough e tote but the only way it will do as it's is intended to do not lose the housing opportunity meaning a registry that includes the number of days that people rent out their unit not visible but the enforcement agencies so they know with the things are happening so individuals can enforce we understand the limited capacity of agencies to enforce and that there is a clear 90 day maximum provision for all hosted and non-hosted cases as planning director director ram said there is importance of the clarity of the maximum of days we hope you'll pass this with strong enforcement mechanisms thank you, supervisors. >> thank you, sir. >> supervisors peter connecticut with the housing associations let me add to fernandez comments we're getting there but i urge you supervisor chiu to not rush this forward it's some of the best policies that needs to be done slowly and a l

than wait until there's a determination whether or not a violation has took place as it relates to airbnb this will give you an entity an opportunity if the city not to take action the ability to take action this will not be voted on today in terms of a apart of the current legislation but i'm introducing it so it can go through the perspective process and be discussed and added to the legislation in the future i wanted to make sure that i brought it to the attention of the 0 commission with that, i'll yield. >> supervisor farrell. >> should we vote on supervisor breed's amendments by the way, because i have a comment oh, at the end with that, first of all, i want to thank president chiu for his hard work on this issue everyone recognizes that as a no win situation there are groups involved here across the board that rarely agree and it's been an will fascinating experience thank you, everyone for being so involved i certainly want to thank our da merlin and john gibner, deputy city attorney for their hard work i'll say general buildingly so to speak our airbnb has revolutionized things a

john gibner, deputy city attorney for their hard work i'll say general buildingly so to speak our airbnb has revolutionized things across the city i don't think that generally in the early stages government should not get in the way of consumer demand whether uber or airbnb but there reaches a point the government rethsdz those industries and those behaviors we have reached that point with airbnb in san francisco i know other cases throughout the country i very much agree it was part of the legislation i see stationss t is core and central that's no brainer and insurance for anyone that could be affected by behavior in my units this legislation does not peers the vail of the existing leases or the agreements already in place a huge thing from my constituents i have a lot of people that are home sharers and not around the enforcement so if there's an issue or complaint if someone is looking at this we don't leave to the nuisance laws and quite frankly people don't have their faith so permitting this behavior our planning department is on board i know they're to work on this is incredibly

finally prioritizing the taxes thank you airbnb for e-mail me and let me know that a taxably system is going to be place villaraigosa soon there's a prejudice against bayview i felt it every passengers when i talk about bayview oh, wasn't that a dangerous neighborhood it's not i like to share that first hand with people and finally, i offer to the supervisors a ceremonial key to my house i'll mail that to you (laughter). >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> okay. we'll go to the next batch (calling names) you can come on up i'm david thomas first a comment about insurance you can obtain insurance on a home or a 4 unit building quite easily not to restrict short-term rentals to those who have large units 5 unit or more that remains a building second a comment on enforcement rewarding the 2 hundred and 75 requirement for living in the unit and the days that you are being rented out it's easy to go on airbnb for example, and check that out there's probably no need to send people out to look at parents at 6:00 a.m. in the morning or whatever critics say you can tell from the reviews

of congestion associated that that type of neighborhood i think what is the difference between an airbnb and an airbnb bed-and-breakfast a normal bed-and-breakfast why can't the same laws that are on the books the rules and regulations that apply to the anymore traditional bed-and-breakfast be included the airbnb unit why do we need legislation i guess that's more of a question than a statement i'd like that question addressed anyone want to address that? >> it's public comment so if you have comments please. that's all thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi my name is patricia i'm here supporting the home sharing i have here we collected 4 thousand signatures in the city of san francisco i live in outside of richmond district one 2 hundred and 64 signatures i'm to give to supervisor mar. >> you can leave it right there. >> i've been housed in san francisco and opposed to limiting home sharing to 90 days the city needs to know how many days i'm to host when i'm in town, however, i don't agree with supervisor chiu's amendment to 0 list the days i, host i know once a year r

she says airbnb as unfair, unregulated big business. >> airbnb is the wal-mart model of bed and breakfast killing the mom and pops. >> reporter: and though airbnb janet sorenson is a mom, it strained their relationship. >> it's strained our relationship. it's very personal to me. i've given up everything in my life and it's killing us. >> reporter: weeks is not alone. now that airbnb boasts over half a mall listings in 102 countries, baker fears these low-cost, unregulated competitors will hasten a race to the bottom. >> if we have the old fashioned traditional hotel who meet the regulatory standards, if they can't compete with people renting out rooms through airbnb, then you will see a lot of those people wind up losing their job. >> reporter: hold on, says n.y.c.rogin. they will eventually find another. >> there's no clear way of predicting people will lose their jobs in the long run. there definitely will be a shift in the same way 25, 30% of the united states worked in agriculture, today it's less than 1%. >> reporter: as for regulation says nick grossman whose venture capital firm i

and b rb o i've met resident that have been ellis acted because they want to do do airbnb that's the type of behavior we want to encourage you can make more money through airbnb rather than the renting that's the type of behavior we don't want to encourage we want to make sure that the legislation is campfiresable how do we create legislation that we can enforce you know, we have a number of different areas of our code that's difficult to enforce but this problem is a big issue it's hard to understand the numbers of unit that have been permanently taken off the market for long-term and have short term vacation rentals this is the exact thing i'm hoping we'll address through the package of the legislation most of my questions are along that line we've mad moves moving in the right direction i want to continue along that and the number of questions from the planning and building inspection thank you for being here i forward to hearing from the community members again on this issue thank you. >> thank you, supervisor kim supervisor cohen. >> great. thank you very much i have a handful o